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# שִׁית

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7897

**garment** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

garment [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7897/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שִׁית²: n.m. garment [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7897/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. garment (NöBeitrlige, 41 f., cp. Syriac ܫܺܝܽܘܬܳܐ appearance, and qu. שִׁיֻּת?);—cstr. שִׁית זוֹנָה Pr 7:10; fig. שׁ׳ חָמָס ψ 73:6 (v. II. עטף).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (14 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (10 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[the\] garment (1); a garment (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 73:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.73.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.73.6/#tree)

לָ֭כֵן עֲנָקַ֣תְמוֹ גַאֲוָ֑ה יַעֲטָף־שִׁ֝֗ית חָמָ֥ס לָֽמוֹ׃

*Word for word:* therefore it is.a.necklace.for.it pride it.covers a.garment of.violence (to) them

*JPS 1917:* Therefore pride is as a chain about their neck; violence covereth them as a garment.

[Proverbs 7:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.7.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.7.10/#tree)

וְהִנֵּ֣ה אִ֭שָּׁה לִקְרָאת֑וֹ שִׁ֥ית ז֝וֹנָ֗ה וּנְצֻ֥רַת לֵֽב׃

*Word for word:* and there! a.woman to meet him \[the\].garment of.a.prostitute and guarded of.heart

*JPS 1917:* And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of a harlot, and wily of heart.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7897.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7897/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).